A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Thought is free.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.